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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

92-year-old journalist motivated to write again by Fukushima crisis 92歳のジャーナリスト福島事故がきっかけで、本の執筆に励む

In
the 160-centimeter-tall, 36-kilogram frame of 92-year-old Kikujiro
Fukushima burns a journalistic passion.I
first visited Fukushima at his house in Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture,
in the summer of 2007. At the time, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who
was serving his first term, was touting his "beautiful country"
slogan. That same summer, the defense minister resigned after
implying that the atomic bombing of Japan was inevitable.I
remember Fukushima angrily saying at the time that if those in power
imposed their self-righteous values on the people, Japan would return
to a path of mistakes.Since
then, every time I have met Fukushima, his words have made me think."If
you hide in safety in the name of impartiality of the press, you will
not learn the truth," he once said to me. On another occasion he
told me, "If you don't go to the site of an event and face the
people involved, you can't take any pictures, or write an article
that will touch people."Fukushima
previously worked as a photographer, but he traded in his camera for
the written word, and went on to release three books on postwar
Japan. Eventually he retired from the world of journalism, but that
was before the disasters of March 2011 reignited his journalistic
desire. Worried that "the mistakes of Hiroshima would be
repeated," he headed to Fukushima Prefecture accompanied by
younger photographers.In
the disaster-hit prefecture, the same kinds of tragedies that had
plagued the Hiroshima victims he talked to had resurfaced: farmers
robbed of the land passed down from their ancestors, people worried
about the effects of radiation on their children and grandchildren
and the discrimination that could arise.Now
the fall of 2013 has arrived, and a second Abe administration, this
time proposing the creation of a "strong country," has been
born. Lies and cover-ups about the Fukushima nuclear disaster have
come to light, and a push to restart the country's idled nuclear
reactors continues.When
I visited Fukushima's home again, I found him sitting at his desk."Both
this word processor and I are nearing the end of our lives. I always
start out with a prayer that it will run properly," he said."What's
most important is to not ignore things that are troublesome or
inconvenient, to think for yourself, and to start from where you
can," he told me. He added that he wanted to protest against the
pro-nuclear stance."I
want to live a little longer and write a book linking Fukushima and
Hiroshima," he said. "There are still things I have left to
write." (By Shinya Hagio, City News Department)

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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.